Larry L wrote:
A while ago, I got a USB turntable on a whim and have been recording old
albums


I bought a little mixer (can vary input this and that) and I've
been doing much the same. But almost all that jazz has been re-issued
as CDs anyway. So I've been concentrating on out of print and
semi-impossible to get vinyl R&B, of which I have a zillion,
like...........to many to name. Actually I guess a lot of that
has been re-issued too, but it's maddening to buy now, because each
CD has one or two good cuts at most, and then lots of useless
crap.

I saw Ray Charles live at Dillon Gym in Princeton NJ in 1962,
when I was 13.

I thought I was sneaking into a basketball game. I opened a secret
window in the weight lifting room, crawled across the squash courts
and then walked upstairs from the locker room, with square shoulders
and a practiced, arrogant look--like I belonged there.

What I found instead, instead of a basketball game, was....well...it
made me what I am today :-)